Hosta | Harry van de Laar |
Status | not registered |
Originator(s) | Cees Visser |
Origin | longipes f. hypoglauca x 'Maruba Iwa' |
Size category | medium |
Plant height x width | 40x cm (16x in.) |
Leaf length x width | |
Vein pairs | 9 |
Leaf color | green |
Variegation | |
Leaf | good, wavy edge |
Petiole | red |
Scape | |
Scape height | |
Flower | lavender |
Flower length | |
Fragrant | |
Flowering period | August - September |
Fertile | |
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Info | Introduced in 2004 by the Dutch Hosta Society and named in honor of Harry van de Laar, a well-known Dutch plantsman who has passed away and did a lot of work on the nomenclature of perennials, trees and shrubs. This hybrid has grayish-green leaves with white backs that are held on red petioles. Lilac flowers in late summer. |
Sports | 'Fireball' sport/os 'Memory of Harry' sport/gc |
Progeny | 'Busia's Choice' seedling 'Frisian Misty Sky' = PP x 'Sky Dancer' 'Holar Banana Moon' seedling 'Holar Crimson Grape' = 'One Man's Treasure' x PP 'Holar Red Wine' = PP x 'Katsuragawa Beni' 'Miss Abbie' = PP x 'Smoke Signals' 'Phoenix Feathers' = PP x 'Sun Power' 'Valley's Cactus Bowl' = PP x pycnophylla |